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My passion to help others achieve truly exceptional health was born out of my own battles with chronic tiredness, weight fluctuation and frequent visits to the Doctor. I know first hand how difficult it was to make the lifestyle changes that would have made all the difference. The solution only came when I gave my body what it needed on three levels: Mindset, Nutrition and Movement. I want to make your journey towards better health as simple as possible by giving you the support I never had. Applying more than 10 years of experience working as a Psychologist in 3 countries, I have the tools to help you change for good!
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I totally forgot to have a meat-free day last week so this week I'm going to try and make up for it with two. Last time we had a halloumi experiment it went down really well so this week I'm going to try doing something slightly more unusual than just "fry halloumi slice, insert into…… Continue reading What I ate… Week 18
Month: April 2017
What I ate… Week 17
Two weeks of working later are starting to wear down my enthusiasm for cooking lovely, hearty, healthy dinners. There's still Easter chocolate to dispose of and I still haven't used up all of last week's turkey. The wings and legs and leftover breast meat has been relegated to the freezer while we have a bit…… Continue reading What I ate… Week 17
What I ate… Week 16 (Turkey special)
Well who's an idiot then? Oh yes, that would be me. Last week I managed to topple down the stairs while half asleep and bump my back on every step on the way down. That did not make for a pleasant train journey to Wales and nor does it make me particularly happy to be…… Continue reading What I ate… Week 16 (Turkey special)
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Easter's coming up this weekend! The Permanent Roommate and I are going to visit my parents, who live many many miles away. My baby sister turns 18, my grandmother turns 90 and so everyone is descending on a tiny corner of Wales for the celebrations. This year I haven't bought my household any Easter…… Continue reading What I ate… Week 15
What I did… Change Purse
My purse (change purse for all you American English speakers out there) was looking the worse for wear. I'd used it every day for a good couple of years and it was time to put it into graceful retirement. Given my previous success with a simple sewing project this seemed like the ideal time to…… Continue reading What I did… Change Purse
What I did… Teabag Wallet
At the end of last month it was Mother's Day in the UK and I've been casting about for something cute I could give my mum to show my appreciation of her. That challenge combined with my year's resolution of learning to sew meant I knew the best thing to do would be to try…… Continue reading What I did… Teabag Wallet
What I ate… Week 14
Spring has arrived with a vengeance in this little corner of England. The sun is warm, the birds are noisy and the flowers are plentiful. It's making me hopeful for a lovely summer in 2017 and making me think of lovely light summery foods. Lots of salad and fresh vegetables. I've also done something either…… Continue reading What I ate… Week 14


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I am still here. Life with a newborn is busy and good. I have started to edit the random posts I have started and saved but not posted, so hopefully over the next few days, his blog will be more-or-less "up to date" - including some long-awaited pictures.
I know, I know... I suck. I haven't even gotten his birth announcements printed, even though I designed the darn thing well over 2-months ago. So um, yeah.
Just know that all is well... I may be sleep-deprived, but I am still alive. And happy.


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Fly My Pretties! Fly From Carnevale's New Stretch Goal!
September 30, 2014 by dracs
The Kickstarter for Carnevale has less than two weeks left, but it is still bringing us some promising new stretch goals with new goodies coming for the Patricians and the Ospedale with something of an African style to them.
The Adventurer Noble has ventured throughout the continent of Africa and returned with knowledge of that land's magic, which is great news for the Patricians as, much as I love the faction, they really miss out on the cool magic of Carnevale.
Even cooler though has to be the flying monkeys of the Ospedale. Well, technically those are apes, but who cares they look awesome! The grafted on wings look incredibly gruesome, and of course a baboon can be frightening enough without the ability to fly.
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With his arms not so much folded as wrapped around himself, Michael Portillo looks as if he is being restrained by an invisible straitjacket. This turns out to be more about physical discomfort than defensiveness; a "dickie tummy", as he calls it.
He has just returned from a research trip to Basra where he ate something he shouldn't – and he is looking gaunt anyway, thanks to the diet he is on ("being fat" is what he dislikes most about his appearance). The man with the great political future behind him, as he likes to joke, dresses well, but his hunched posture spoils the lines of his finely tailored suit.
He was feeling similarly ill when he filmed an extraordinary scene in his latest documentary, Horizon: How Violent Are You? To find out if we all have an innate propensity for violence, he travelled to the Bolivian Andes to take part in the Tinku, a strange annual fighting ritual among villagers. Dressed in tribal costume and with coloured straps around his knuckles, he has a fist fight with a shortish man who looks old enough to be his father.
Portillo doesn't appear to relish the confrontation – indeed, he looks rather appalled at the indignity of it – but he nevertheless gets stuck in and lands a couple of tasty punches. "I must say I wasn't in the mood because I had altitude sickness. It was a revealing exercise, though, because I had never had a fist fight in my life and assumed I would not enjoy the experience."
And he has a taste for it now? "I did get some satisfaction from knocking the man to the ground. I have always been a passive person, but it taught me something about myself – that I can be physically aggressive. I can be fairly aggressive speaking to people, but that is different.
"I'm not saying I now enjoy violence," he continues. "For 55 years I haven't, so that wasn't going to change in five minutes of beating up some poor Bolivian fellow at 9,000 feet."
The conclusion Portillo draws is that we all have a capacity to enjoy violence. "It's to do with the release of dopamine – the same powerful chemical reaction that makes us enjoy sex. I spoke to a football hooligan who really got off on violence and had been addicted to it for that reason. He couldn't wait for the next Saturday."
While Portillo admits that he sometimes pouts, slams doors and thumps computers, the equivalent adrenalin rush for him is more likely to come from public speaking.
"People don't understand it, but the most intense occasions in the House of Commons were the ones I enjoyed most. When events could go either way and you could find yourself out of a job by the end of the day; those were the times when you were most on a high. Tony Blair used to get a real buzz from emerging from difficulty unscathed."
Portillo would be inhuman, I suggest, if he didn't now look at David Cameron, the Tory prime minister-in-waiting, and think: that could have been me. "Yes, but I'm relaxed about that," he says. "I know him very well and always thought him impressive. I'm pretty sure that when I first met him in 1991 I thought that Cameron might one day be leader of the Conservative Party."
After Portillo? "I wasn't as intent on being leader as people thought, actually. I felt other people were more intent on my behalf. When I stood for leader in 2001, I was feeling pretty disillusioned. I was flattered into it by colleagues."
In the end he lost… to Iain Duncan Smith! Was that a humiliation too far? "I don't think I've got a thick skin, but I've not felt particularly humiliated by the things which people think I would have felt humiliated by, such as losing my seat in 1997 and not being elected leader in 2001. In the second case, I felt relieved."
It got personal. Chief among his detractors was Norman Tebbit, who told me around that time that Portillo made his "toes curl". How rude was that? "Tebbit was rude, it's true. He said the Tories should vote for a family man, and when I dropped out of the contest it had just been announced that Gordon Brown's wife was expecting a baby; sadly, the one they lost. Gordon was Chancellor then and I was his shadow, so in my last appearance at the Dispatch Box I said: 'Congratulations on your wife's impending baby. I know Lord Tebbit will be thrilled.' "
Portillo and Carolyn, his wife of 26 years, do not have children. She is a headhunter for an international firm, a job that involves a fair amount of travelling. "When I was Minister of Defence she used to accompany me on foreign trips. I suppose that would be thought disgraceful now. Now, it is more often the case that I will go along as a spouse when she is the one on business trips. She didn't come to Basra, because that was all flak jackets and helmets."
Back home, umbrellas might seem more appropriate, for their marriage does seem to have weathered some storms. Four years ago, a client of Max Clifford's claimed she had had an affair with Portillo and, though he declined to comment, Portillo did give an intriguing answer to a newspaper. Q: "To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why?" A: "She knows who she is and why." Q: "Which living person do you most despise, and why?" A: "She knows who she is
and why."
And, in 1999, Portillo admitted in an interview that he had had homosexual experiences as a student. There was a certain awkwardness to his public persona before then; was that because he knew this subject would one day have to be confronted? "Well, yes. I chose the timing of it because I was fed up with the innuendo. Outrageous things were being said and printed, so I thought, when I get the opportunity I will put that record straight." He laughs darkly. "This was not a brilliant decision."
Because he didn't need to? "Exactly."
Just as Cameron decided he did not need to answer the question about whether he took cocaine as a student? "Well, there you go. Perhaps I helped show Cameron how to play these things."
He does still miss politics. "To be in the media is to be in the wings. Being in politics is being on the stage. It is so exciting. If we'd had a happier time in that shadow Cabinet, I might have stayed. But I felt I had come back into a very poisonous atmosphere. William Hague's staff had identified me as the enemy and made life very difficult for me from the beginning. It was tiresome."
But surely he was always plotting against Hague? "No, I think that rumour was unjustified, though in the end things did get tit for tat. I still think William wanted to do to the party what Cameron has since done, but he lost his nerve."
Portillo's body language when he announced he was standing down suggested ennui. "Ennui is quite a good word for what I felt. I had grown tired of collective responsibility, not being able to speak my mind. Tired and bored. I also found it stressful and the occasional highs were no longer compensating for that stress. You need staying power and evidently I didn't have it."
And there was also, perhaps, a little self-loathing. The trait he most deplores in himself is, after all, self-satisfaction. And his greatest regret is his "who dares wins" speech to conference – he shivers with embarrassment whenever he recalls it. He has also talked about a certain stiffness in the way he holds himself and walks. "But I think I was worse when I was a politician. Whenever I was being Paxo‑ed, I always looked tense, sitting back in my chair."
He adds that when he left politics and reinvented himself as a documentary-maker, he had to change his relationship with the lens. "The camera had become a thing to be feared. I always admired the ability of Blair and Cameron to look relaxed on camera when under pressure. I only found that level of comfort in front of the lens once I had left politics."
Well, up to a point. In another experiment for his new documentary, Portillo is deprived of sleep for two days – kept awake by recordings of a crying baby and then forced to work a stressful shift in a busy kitchen to see if he will lose his temper. "Sleep deprivation over quite a short period of time can make you paranoid," he says. "If it had gone on longer, it would have driven me to violence, I think. I was becoming very edgy and paranoid about the whole experiment and quite aggressive to the people, the programme-makers, who I saw as my tormentors. I felt persecuted."
On the subject of paranoia, I wonder how he felt about having Max Clifford breathing down his neck all those years. It wasn't paranoia, of course; the Tory-hating publicist really was out to get him. Was he aware of that at the time? "Not particularly." He gives a rubbery smile that makes his eyes disappear; it doesn't reassure so much as chill.
When I tell him about the time the publicist boasted to me about a "Portillo story" he would make public if Portillo became leader, he wraps his arms around himself again and says: "People like him like to say things like that."
To big themselves up? A shrug. "I guess."
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Food, Drinks, & Fun
There's a lot of music, there's confetti, a Music Note Drop, and fireworks. But there's also food, drinks, and whole lot more fun to be had at the Jack Daniel's Music City Midnight: New Year's Eve in Nashville celebration!
The information below shows what was offered at the 2017 event. Stay tuned for details for 2018!
You will not go hungry on New Year's Eve. Nashville food trucks will be set up around the event site, serving local Music City food.
Music City Zone
Warm up with Nashville's staple cuisine, hot chicken from Prince's Hot Chicken and Bolton's Chicken & Fish. Local brews Black Abbey Rose, Blackstone Nut Brown, Mill Creek Lil' Darlin', Nashville Brewing Co Lager, and Tailgate Southeast IPA are also offered. You can grab a plate and a delicious, local beer from the Music City Zone located on Harrison Street between 7th Avenue North and 6th Avenue North.
Food Trucks
We have a great selection of local Nashville food trucks this year. They open at 4pm on December 31st and will be located at 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street. This year's food trucks include:
313 Coney
Bob's Fish Fry
City Kitchen
Crimson Witch
Cousin's Maine Lobster
Doxie's Pizza
Grilled Cheeserie
Hoss Burgers
ML Rose
Music City Brisket
Paradise Ridge BBQ
Smoke Et Al
Smokin Butts
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Indulge in some Hershey's
Hershey's, a proud sponsor of Team USA, will invite consumers and fans to their S'moresmobile to enjoy free, full-size Hershey's s'mores (while supplies last) and share memories with friends and family over the all-American, classic treat. Hershey's ambassadors will also be distributing the new Hershey's Gold bars, which feature a caramelized crème that includes salty, crunchy bits of peanuts and pretzels, delivering a brand-new, creamy, crunchy, buttery Hershey's experience. Be sure to stop by, snap some pictures with the mascots, and share your Hershey's experience on social media. You can find them at the corner of 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
Enjoy Hardee's®
Hardee's®, Star Diner ® will be serving their $5 All Star Meals made to order on New Year's Eve. Stop by and enjoy a Real Value Meal and a chance to win coupons and swag. They will be located at the corner of 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
Grab a drink. Dr Pepper products are available for purchase throughout the event site. Same with coffee and hot chocolate which will be discounted at 8pm to $1. Jack Daniel's, Bud Light, Budweiser, Fetzer, and Korbel are also offered for sale to friends 21+.
Experience Jack Daniel
The Jack Daniel's Bar Trailer is a comprehensive Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey zone on wheels. Not only will it feature a Jack Daniel's bar but it is also a place to pick up authentic Jack Daniel's branded merchandise. The Jack Daniel's Bar Trailer will be located at 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
Also, be on the lookout for the Jack Daniel's Airstream Bars throughout the site. Another place to find your favorite Jack Daniel's cocktail! Your friends at Jack Daniel's remind you to drink responsibly.
Have fun with Bud Light
Bud Light will have a bar set up with TVs and a limited supply of koozies and beads for lucky patrons. Head on over to 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street to have some fun!
Champagne Toast
Enjoy a toast this evening thanks to Korbel and Fetzer who will be on site. Also, Korbel will be handing out an array of hats, necklaces, and noisemakers at 6h Avenue North & Harrison Street.
Dr Pepper Cherry
Before you go, make sure to snag a free sample of Dr Pepper Cherry. They will be handing out samples as you exit at 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
Fun Activities
There's more! Photo opps, games, and giveaways - oh my!
Get Official Merchandise
The Music City Shop merchandise truck will have official Music City Midnight t-shirts, koozies, posters, and more. You can find them at 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
Enter for a chance to win a car
Could you imagine taking home a new car this New Year's Eve? It's possible thanks to our friends at Carl Black Chevrolet. Head to 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street to register to win a 2017 Spark.
Get warm with Tennessee
Made in Tennessee Street Teams will distribute hand warmers to the crowd. You can also pick them up at our Visitors Information Tent located at the corner of 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
Get festive thanks to Dr Pepper Cherry & Kroger
Dr Pepper Cherry & Kroger will have free party hats and horns, which will be distributed at our Visitor Information Tent located at the corner of 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
More hand warmers!
Ferguson Bath & Kitchen Gallery Street Teams will be handing out hand warmers to the crowd. Our Visitor Information Tent will also have some hand warmers to hand out. Find us at the corner of 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
Capture the moment!
You will have multiple opportunities to capture the moment and remember it forever at #NashvilleNYE. There will be a GIANT Advance Financial Picture Frame towards the back of Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in the Bell Carillon. Also, in the same area will be a massive "2018" sign ready to be used as a backdrop for a great picture.
Tennessee State Park & Friends of Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park
Get to know the people who take care of Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park with hot chocolate. They will be dishing out the warm beverage and offering information on the Friends Group of Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park. Find them at 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
British Airways Pub
We will be celebrating the New Year TWICE at the Jack Daniel's Music City Midnight in honor of our friends across the pond and the British Airways direct flight beginning in May 2018. Peter Frampton will be joining the Mayor on the Jack Daniel's Stage to celebrate the London New Year at 6pm CST. The party continues with British Airways airfare ticket giveaways, the British Airways Pub that has beer from the U.K., a free photo booth, fish & chips, and so much more!
The USO
The USO, a military support nonprofit, strengthens America's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home, and country during their service. This New Year's Eve, stop by and visit the USO Sprinter Van and be the Force Behind the Forces℠, by sending a message of support to our service members for the New Year! Join the campaign to connect at www.uso.org/messages. They will also be giving away a limited number of patriotic bead necklaces, glow in the dark red, white, and blue necklaces and brackets, USO ball caps/hats, USO t-shirts, USO branded fans, USO postcards about their mobile app, USO banner up about the Campaign To Connect, and USO bandanas. Make sure to check them out at 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.
The U.S. Olympic Committee is bringing the spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to Nashville with Team USA WinterFest presented by HERSHEY'S. The festival, which is in partnership with the Jack Daniel's Music City Midnight: New Year's Eve in Nashville celebration, will take place December 30-31 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Music City Walk of Fame Park. It is free and open to the public. Activities include HERSHEY'S S'moresmobile and Bobsled Boomerang, along with OREO's Team USA Curling Challenge and Social Truck. Team USA athletes scheduled to appear include Amy Purdy, Paralympic gold medalist and Dancing with the Stars contestant, and Olympic swimming medalists Allison Schmitt and Elizabeth Beisel. There will be performances from Lewis Brice, Maggie Rose, and Canaan Smith. In addition, Team USA athletes will sign autographs at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park during Music City Midnight activities on Dec. 31.
Special Note: Autograph Signing will be at approximately 7pm and located at the corner of 6th Avenue North & Harrison Street.


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What Happens Next?
Once your application has been reviewed by our Adoption Facilitator, she will call you for an "interview". You MAY be asked to submit to a 2nd in-person interview and/or a home visit.
Adoption Time!
Once your kitty is ready to go and you have been approved, you will need to pick him/her up! Please ALWAYS bring a quality cat carrier as it is unsafe to take your kitty in a vehicle without one. You will be asked to sign an Adoption Contract and pay your adoption fee. Unless otherwise noted, the adoption fee for all alleycats and alleykittens is $160. This includes wellness exam, 1st indoor vaccinations (and sometimes 2nd), spay/neuter, deworm and tattoo. (Currently, a spay alone can cost around $450 dollars), that's it! You get to go home and enjoy your new kitty!


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New batch of Gentle Face Cream
Making Gentle Facial Cream...all natural with organic ingredients.
Started with melting coconut oil and beeswax then add almond oil, apricot oil and grapeseed oil into blender. Emulsify with distilled water, aloe vera, helichrysum hydrosol, geranium essential oil and vitamin E oil.
Pour into jars...Perfect!
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Whether it is the floors in your home that you are worried about, or the scratches and stains on your office floor, as a home owner or manager of a commercial space, you would know how difficult and unsightly a badly maintained floor can look. The task of polishing floors can be so tedious that even the best of the DIY lot would shy away from taking the onus on their shoulders.
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Polishing wooden floors
Wooden floors are very delicate, and expensive. You need someone who has the experience and the ability to gauge what your floor needs and work accordingly. Most wooden floor polishing services will tell you that a floor sanding is required, when in fact a sanding is not very necessary in most cases until there are deep scratches or gouges in the wood floor, or some deep stains that cannot be removed by traditional methods. Sanding removes the top layer of the wooden floor, and though it makes the floor look more shiny and new, it also thins down the wood a layer at a time. Most of the times all your wooden floor needs to look new is a thorough cleaning to remove the dust and grime, and a varnish.
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Days before President Obama said sending troops into Syria to fight the Islamic State would be a "mistake," Hillary Clinton once again cast her past support of military intervention in Libya as a humanitarian effort.
Her comments came during the Democratic debate Saturday evening, when she faced additional questions about her push for a policy that ultimately left a Middle Eastern country in chaos.
Pulled left by a progressive challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders and confined by President Obama's refusal to ramp up military engagement, which he reiterated Monday at the G20 Summit in Turkey, Clinton argued during the debate that military force should be a "last resort" in Syria, despite her stated desire to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad.
That precarious positioning on Syria mirrors the stances she has been forced to take on Iraq and Libya, given that she presided over the widely-criticized withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in 2011 and previously proclaimed "ownership" of the U.S. policy in Libya that left a vacuum in the wake of Moammar Gadhafi.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com


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the day she sees the world...it was 12am. my sis was getting ready to go to the hospital. her eldest daughter, qistina, was sleeping soundlessly in their room and the 2nd one, dania was downstairs, watching perempuan, isteri dan ... wit her tok mama. (yup! bersungguh2 dia layan cite tu dgn my ma)
upon seeing her dad going up and down the stairs, dania became curious and a lil panicky... it's normal to see her in dat mode sebab she's a lil manja with almost everyone in the house...
d: daddy nak pegi mana..?
me: daddy nak bawak mummy pegi hospital, baby nak keluar dah..
d: nak ikut.....
me: cannot la sayang. doktor tak kasi bawak budak..
and she started crying and quickly stood up and went upstairs.
later she came down with sweater and all ready. she looked at me, still angry but satisfied cuz her mummy let her follow them to the hospital. muka mengada-ngada gile!
me: dania ikut jugak ke?
d: mummy bagi dania ikut..
after much persuasions, semua tak menjadi. dia nak ikut jugak. so, they went to the hospital. few minutes later, b came back from the office. i told him dat my sister is ready to give birth to her 3rd child.
at 1am, my bro-in-law sent dania back home. she was half asleep i assumed. after checking her out in my ma's room, i went back to my room and continue my late nite chat with b. (lately, we seemed to have a lot of conversations late at nite... yela. dia selalu balik lambat je..)
suddenly i heard someone's crying. rupanya, budak berdua tu dah terjaga pastu menangis sebab they want their mother. i opened the door, only to see dania at my door.. and her kakak at my ma's room, pon tengah menangis jugak. b pon bangun gak, pastu terus took his guitar, konon2 nak pujuk dania (dania is a sucker for music... and make up).
i went to get qistina, my mama dah tak tau nak cakap apa dah. so, i tried to pujuk her as well, macam2 la cakap so that they stop crying. tapi tak jalan jugak.. last-last i've to bribe them with ice cream while b serenading the guitar, and they sing along.. songs from the indon film, heart. aiyo! pagi2 buta and that's what we were doing...
half and hour later baru la berjaya pujuk dorang tido. it was almost 2am. so they went into my ma's room and sleep. few minutes later, mama told me that my sis dah deliver. a healthy 4.1kg baby girl was born @ 2.06am. normal birth pulak tu! i was shock sebab she weighs that much! besar gila!!
*puteri mia sarah, that was the name given to the latest edition of our family members. she has the same exact look as her other sisters when they were born! it's like a carbon copy and i think she resembles qistina more. only this time her cheeks are very dominant, chubby and damn cute!! and her brows pon slightly 'fierce-looking' than the other 2.
getting the chance to hold her made me tak sabar2 to hold mine.... tapi when i think about the pain... nervous and scary gak kan...? hmm.. please pray for a safe delivery eh?
****editted version****
now, her name is officially spelled *puteri myia sarah. her dad wants it to be spelled that way...
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The trademark Bakelite and its associated logotype were first coined in the early years of the 20th century to describe the products of the phenol formaldehyde reaction developed in America by Leo H Baekeland. His patent specifications covering the chemical reaction and its uses are regarded by many as the birth certificate of the modern plastics industry. The mathematical infinity symbol underneath a capital B was intended to indicate the myriad uses of his phenolic materials. This was replaced with the three-lobed version circa 1926, which was inspired by the amalgamation of Baekeland's General Bakelite Co. with the Condensite Co. and Redmanol Chemical Products Co. to form the Bakelite Corporation. The logo was 'modernised' in 1956 and survived in this form until the Company's demise.
In spite of determined efforts by Baekeland and his lawyers over many years to protect the trademark it became so abused and widespread in use as to become generic and appear, for example, with a small 'b' in leading dictionaries throughout the world.
Baekeland had originally registered both his patents and the trademarks in a number of countries throughout the world. When, in 1939, he finally sold his company to the giant Union Carbide Corporation of America, the name was soon used in connection with a number of their other plastics products such as polyethylene, PVC, urea formaldehyde, polyester and epoxide resins.
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Now that the dust has settled from my first craft market, I can say that it was a success! I learned a LOT. From how to use the Square reader, adding proper tax (NOT .055% but 5.5 %), how to merchandise a tent, and how to best make your items appealing. The other venders were really curious about how well I did financially, and I just told them that I broke even, all of the money that I spent on the market rental fee, the new sewing machine I bought, the fabrics and materials, I made all of that money back and from this point on everything is profit, and they told me that was a really good thing. I was told some amazing compliments, like how unique my items were, how some people thought my tent was the best at the fair, and how cute and well crafted everything was.
I found a Living Social deal from BannerBuzz.com and got my 3×6 banner for just $18!
My fiancée made the branch display with hooks to hang the larger bags off of. We got the branch in his parent's woods.
We got the idea for these branch displays from Pinterest too, and he was able to make them for me. He just loves an excuse to use the hole saw.
I made price signs for bulk items in picture frames from the Dollar Store.
I found some great display pieces in the alley up the street.
We saw some interesting characters, and pet a lot of puppies.
I made rice pack chickens for door stoppers or kids toys. They were a good attention grabber!
The whales were a hit too. I sold more to adults than to children.
It was fun to see my creations on display to let people look at. Months of hard work was finally paying off. If you are a crafter and love to be creative I totally recommend doing a craft market. Everything that didn't sell will be on my Etsy store in the next few weeks.
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An epic 1986 event, to be re told over a week in August 2015
Kicking off on August 9 will be another amazing Graham Wallis rerun, to celebrate & re-trace the epic 1986 event that was held to mark the 150th anniversary of South Australia. The original event was designed to "take in a large number of historically significant points around the State and will focus on the achievements of the early pioneers".
This event will start at Nuriootpa on Saturday 8th of August and conclude the following Saturday the 15th. The event will finish at Murray Bridge.
There will beapproximately 2800 km of sealed and unsealed roads covering a portion of the original route. No special car preparation required, except for the vehicle requirements stipulated in the regulations, although cars will obviously need to be reliable & in very good mechanical condition.
There will be sub events to add to the fun, like Speedway, Motorkhana and road events (regularity trials)
Of course there will also be the terrific social aspect to it. Entry fee will likely be $1400 for 7 days of motorsport. Already over 50 expressions of interest have been received from the HRA and other enthusiasts.
To register your interest and find out more, contact Graham Wallis by e-mail; ewal7731 AT bigpond.net.au or telephone 0429 939 619


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I hate arguing for argument's sake, but I do feel that the use of "The Message" in a church setting is impactful enough for my critiques to be heard.
The issue at hand isn't one translation versus another. This issue is the philosophy behind the translation process. "The Message" is a colloquial paraphrase of the Bible, written by Eugene Peterson, a professor emeritus at Regent College in Vancouver, BC. The translation philosophy behind "The Message" is the idea that the words of the ancient authors were written in an informal, colloqiual language, and therefore, we as English speakers should have the benefit of reading Scripture in an informal colloquial version.
Conversely, other Bible translations, such as the English Standard Version, hold the philosophy that the original words of the ancient authors were inspired by God, and should be conveyed in any language as closely to the original as possible. The ESV is considered an "essentially literal" translation, attempting to be transparent to the original text. It isn't
word-for-word as the NASB, but takes into account the differences between English and Greek in syntax, grammar and idiom. For tradition's sake, the ESV carries the lineage of the original Reformation Tyndale-King James line of translations. In my own experience, I find the text highly readable, understandable, and applicable. It also carries a more conservative view than other modern translations in regards to gender-neutral language and looseness of style.
Consider the passage of the Lord's Prayer:
Matthew 6:9-13, The Message:
With a God like this loving you, you can pray very simply. Like this:
Our Father in heaven,
Reveal who you are.
Set the world right;
Do what's best— as above, so below.
Keep us alive with three square meals.
Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others.
Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil.
You're in charge!
You can do anything you want!
You're ablaze in beauty!
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Matthew 6:9-13, English Standard Version:
Pray then like this:
"Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come,
your will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil."
The phrase "For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever. Amen." in verse 13 didn't appear in the majority of original manuscripts available, so it is only available as a footnote in the ESV. But you can see the paraphrased "You're in charge! You can do anything you want! You're ablaze in beauty! Yes. Yes. Yes." does appear in The Message without any contextual footnote.
The ESV provides an essentially literal English translation of this passage (with which I'm sure you are familiar), and doesn't attempt to interpret the meaning of the text. In Eugene's version, he is interpreting the ideas for the reader. A reader of The Message will see "Keep us alive with three square meals" and will only see Eugene's interpretation that the Greek "artos" (which literally means "bread") means physical nourishment. (How else can one read into the phrase "three square meals?"). However, the ESV text is direct, and in this case actually gives a closer image of the original metaphorical meaning of the text. See John Wesley's notes on 6:11:
"Give us – O Father (for we claim nothing of right, but only of thy free mercy) this day – (for we take no thought for the morrow) our daily bread – All things needful for our souls and bodies: not only the meat that perisheth, but the sacramental bread, and thy grace, the food which endureth to everlasting life."
In the words of Martin Luther, from his 1529 Small Catechism,
"daily bread includes everything that has to do with the support and needs of the body, such as food, drink, clothing, shoes, house, home, land, animals, money, goods, a devout husband or wife, devout children, devout workers, devout and faithful rulers, good government, good weather, peace, health, self-control, good reputation, good friends, faithful neighbors, and the like."
I ask again, could a reader really have come to that simple theological conclusion from the colloquial phrase "Keep us alive with three square meals?"
John Piper (I assume he needs no introduction) taught a series of sermons during a collegiate retreat that has since been the most impactful, powerful, soul-wrenching, thought-provoking message I've ever heard. The series didn't have anything to do with ESV (it didn't exist at the time), but because of that retreat, I do have a deep respect for his theological bearings. I was surprised and excited when I found an article he wrote: "Good English With Minimal Interpretation: Why Bethlehem Uses the ESV."


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Convective storms are the primary cause of floods and erosion from areas burned by wildfire. As part of my research as a hydrologist, I have tried to learn more about them. How does outflow from a convective area cause the development of convective storms in another area? For example, I received this message on July 15, 2016, from the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District (UDFCD) Flood Prediction Center, which serves the Denver, Colorado, metropolitan area.
A strong outflow boundary from convection over Nebraska earlier today has reached northeastern Colorado, with greater moisture existing behind the boundary. Thunderstorms have been triggered along this boundary … with additional thunderstorms possible this afternoon.
I don't understand how outflow from convective activity in Nebraska (more than 100 miles northeast of Denver) could affect storm development in the Denver-Boulder area, when the predominant upper level flow is from west to east.
John A. Moody
Boulder, Colorado
You are correct that the upper level flow was from the west on the day of this event. In the mid-troposphere (500 millibars, about 19,000 feet altitude), the flow was from the west-northwest at 25 mph. In the high troposphere (200 millibars, about 42,000 feet altitude), it was from the same direction at about 75 mph. One might expect that the brisk flow aloft would push any thunderstorm eastward, but on this day the air flow that caused the thunderstorms to form was in the lower troposphere and was moving toward the southwest.
Here is the sequence of events.
A large cluster of showers and thunderstorms persisted in central and southwest Nebraska for more than five hours the morning of July 15. The reflectivity image from the WSR-88D radar (KLNX) that serves western Nebraska is shown in Figure 1 for 7:23 a.m. CDT and is typical of the coverage and intensity of echoes throughout the morning. The white borders separate Nebraska from South Dakota at the top of the image and from Colorado and Kansas at the bottom. Interstate 80, in red, curves across southern Nebraska.
Figure 1.
A radar reflectivity map for 7:23 a.m. CDT, July 15, 2016, from the WSR-88D radar, whose beam is pointed 0.5 degree above the horizontal. The radar, identified with the label KLNX, is located north of North Platte, Nebraska. Note the widespread shower and thundershower activity, which continued more than four hours after this map time. Interstate 80 (in red) curves gently across southern Nebraska. The color bar at left represents values of reflectivity factor in logarithmic units of decibels (dBZ). Higher numbers indicate stronger echoes and (usually) more intense precipitation.
Figure 2 is an estimate of cumulative rainfall from 7:00 p.m. CDT July 14 until 1:00 p.m. CDT July 15 from the KLNX radar. Because this radar has dual polarization capability, the estimate is probably not far off the mark. Rainfall was quite substantial, with areas shaded in red receiving over two inches, most of it falling on the morning of July 15. Evaporation produced a large volume of rain-cooled air. Being cooler and denser than air where rain didn't fall, this air began to spread out laterally, its leading edge marked by a gust front.
Figure 2.
A map of cumulative precipitation between 7:00 p.m. July 14 and 1:00 p.m. July 15, 2016. The color bar at left indicates precipitation amounts. This image was derived from a time history of reflectivity data captured by the KLNX WSR-88D radar north of North Platte, Nebraska. Note that extensive areas received more than two inches of rain.
As the gust front advanced southwestward into Colorado, it was first detectable on the KFTG WSR-88D radar that serves most of northeastern Colorado, including the Denver metropolitan area, at 12:03 p.m. MDT. Figure 3 shows two disconnected gust fronts (white arrows), both generated by precipitation in Nebraska—the southern one passing through Akron, Colorado, and the other approaching Fort Morgan, Colorado.
Figure 3.
A radar reflectivity image for 12:03 p.m. MDT, July 15, 2016, from the KFTG WSR-88 radar east of Denver, Colorado. Beam elevation is 0.5 degree, nearly horizontal. The radar is located at the red dot along Interstate 70, the east-west highway that curves across the center of the map. The major north-south highway is Interstate 25. The highway that runs northeast from Denver is Intertstate 76. From north to south, the Front Range foothills lie just to the west of Fort Collins, Boulder, Golden, Castle Rock, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. A prominent ridge runs east from the foothills through Castle Rock and Kiowa, Colorado. It rises 1,000–2,000 feet higher than the elevations of Denver and Colorado Springs. County boundaries are in green. The color bar for reflectivity factor in decibels (dBZ) is at left. Clear air radar returns (blue) cover the northeast Colorado plains. Note the two disconnected gust fronts (white arrows) just coming within radar range.
Under normal conditions, the radar beam bends downward toward the earth's surface with a curvature a little less than that of the spherical earth itself. Thus the lowest beam of the radar, pointed 0.5 degree up from the horizontal, finds itself at increasing elevations above the earth's surface with increasing distance from the radar. At a distance of about 75 miles (from the radar to Akron), the 0.5-degree beam would be about 7,000 feet above the surface, in part because the land surface slopes gently downward toward the east on the Colorado plains. This implies that the depth of the rain-cooled air was more than 7,000 feet when it was first detected.
Figure 4.
Same as Figure 3 but for 1:07 p.m. White arrows show the gust front, advancing southwestward toward the Denver, Colorado, metropolitan area. Note showers breaking out east and northeast of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Figure 4 shows the discontinuous gust front (white arrows), nearly 100 miles long, advancing toward the Denver metro area at 1:07 p.m. There is no precipitation in northeast Colorado. What, then, makes the gust front visible in clear air? Like a cold front, the dense, rain-cooled air is colliding with, and nosing under, warmer, less dense air. In midsummer, insect populations are high on the Colorado prairie. The convergence and uplift provided by the gust front concentrates the bugs and lifts them several thousand feet, where birds are drawn to feed on them. Bugs and birds alike are visible as targets just as raindrops are. Blowing dust may also have contributed to the gust-front echo. A third contribution is that the gust front creates a strong enough gradient in refractive index that a portion of the radar beam energy is reflected back to the radar, generating a small signal in reflectivity. All three of these factors can contribute to the reflectivity signature associated with this and other gust fronts.
Figure 5.
Same as Figure 3 but for 1:58 p.m. The long, sinuous gust front is nearing the foothills west of I-25 by Fort Collins. It stretches southeastward almost to Hugo, Colorado. The showers that were east and northeast of Colorado Springs on Figure 4 have generated a gust front that shows as a distinct arc southeast of Kiowa. This gust front is moving east.
By 1:58 p.m., the two segments of the gust front along its northern flank have merged (Figure 5), and the KFTG radar has a better view of it because the 0.5-degree beam height at the gust front is now closer to the ground. The northern end of the gust front has just crossed Interstate 25 (red north-south highway) south of Fort Collins, Colorado. On the northeast Colorado plains, surface reports show northeast to east winds of 20–25 mph behind the gust front and, within one hour of passage, a temperature drop of 10°F, a dew point rise of 10°F, and a sky clouding rapidly with stratocumulus, similar to what happens with passage of a cold front.
By 2:49 p.m., the gust front has intersected the foothills from Fort Collins to near Boulder, Colorado, and scattered showers are forming there in response. See Figure 6. The showers near Central City, Colorado, north of Golden, Colorado, and farther south near Castle Rock and Kiowa, Colorado, are not associated with the gust front but rather would probably have formed anyway, the result of daytime heating over elevated terrain. In particular, the ridge of high ground that extends east from the foothills just south of Castle Rock is known to be a convective hotspot, where the earliest showers often form on summer afternoons.
Figure 6.
Same as Figure 3 but for 2:49 p.m. Showers are forming from west of Fort Collins, Colorado, to Golden, Colorado, as the northern flank of the gust front pushes into the foothills. The southern flank of the same gust front, pushing west-southwest, has collided with the much smaller gust front moving east from Colorado Springs and noted in Figure 5.
By 3:18 p.m., the gust front has just passed the KFTG radar site and still retains its identity (Figure 7). Moderate thundershowers have formed between Boulder and Broomfield, Colorado, near where the gust front intersects the foothills. Animation of five-minute radar images shows that these storms generate a secondary gust front which spreads mostly southward in an arc toward Denver.
Figure 7.
Same as Figure 3 but for 3:18 p.m. Moderate thunderstorms have formed between Boulder and Broomfield, Colorado, near where the gust front currently intersects with the foothills. These thunderstorms send a gust front (not shown) toward Denver, Colorado, during the next 90 minutes.
More than an hour and a half later, by 4:59 p.m. (Figure 8), the gust front has lost its identity, but extrapolation of its position places it north of Kiowa, where it seems to have invigorated the thunderstorm there. A strong thunderstorm has formed over central Denver. Not especially large, it nonetheless produces one-inch hail. It's possible, though hard to prove, that this storm formed from a collision between the large-scale gust front from Nebraska and the lesser gust front originating from storms that formed just south of Boulder shown in Figure 7.
Figure 8.
Same as Figure 3 but for 4:59 p.m. The large gust front from Nebraska has lost its identity. The smaller gust front spawned by storms between Boulder, Colorado, and Broomfield, Colorado, in Figure 7 has moved south and southeast and may be responsible for the three thunderstorms from west of Golden, Colorado, to central Denver, Colorado. The storm over Denver is strong, producing one-inch hail. The thunderstorm that has blossomed near Kiowa, Colorado, is near the extrapolated position of the major gust front seen on previous figures. Like most of the thunderstorms on the afternoon of July 15, this one formed over higher ground with assistance from a gust front.
Thunderstorms on the afternoon of July 15, 2016, were widely scattered and mostly confined to elevated terrain, but why did they form when and where they did?
Every thunderstorm has three ingredients: moisture, potential instability, and a triggering mechanism.
Without water vapor in the atmosphere, there can be no clouds, no storms. The gust front arriving from Nebraska brought significantly greater moisture to the Front Range Urban Corridor and acted to increase the potential instability of the atmosphere.
Potential Instability
To explain potential instability, it's necessary to refer to a sounding diagram, which plots measurements made by a rising balloon carrying temperature and moisture sensors. I explained the Stüve diagram in the March/April 2016 installment (pp. 38–41) of this column in Weatherwise, and so I will avoid the details here. Please refer to the Stüve diagrams in Figures 9 and 10.
The red curves show how the temperature and dew point vary when a specified volume of air (called a parcel) is lifted forcibly from near the surface. It is assumed that the parcel does not mix with its surroundings, which is a reasonable approximation, and that rain falling through the parcel does not slow it down. As indicated by the right-hand red curve, the parcel cools as it rises, and, when the temperature and dew point become equal, condensation occurs, forming a cloud. From this point on, the parcel temperature and dew point are the same. As long as the air parcel remains cooler (and therefore denser) than its surroundings (as long as the red curve lies to the left of the environmental temperature curve on the Stüve diagram), the lifting must be forced. Otherwise the parcel would sink back to its starting point.
Condensation releases energy into the parcel, raising its temperature and giving it the opportunity to become warmer than the air outside the cloud. If and when this happens, the parcel becomes buoyant at what is called the level of free convection (LFC). From this point on, the in-cloud parcel can rise much like a hot air balloon, as long as it remains warmer than the air outside the cloud (as long as the red curve lies to the right of the environmental temperature curve).
Atmospheric instability is potential until air parcels reach their LFC. The energy released within the parcel by condensation is necessary, but not always sufficient, to bring a parcel to its LFC. Unless this happens, the instability remains potential (it is not realized), and no thunderstorm will form.
Sometimes you can estimate where the LFC is by looking at a growing thunderhead. Below the LFC, the walls of the cloud are relatively smooth, where the air is being forced upward through the condensation level. At and above the LFC, the walls of the cloud bulge and swell like a cauliflower. Parcel buoyancy causes this change in appearance.
The morning sounding on July 15 from Denver (Figure 9) is fairly dry: the spread between temperature and dewpoint is substantial, and the precipitable water, which can be computed from the sounding data, is 0.52 inches. (That's the depth of a puddle that would result if all the moisture in a vertical column of the atmosphere condensed and fell to the ground as rain.) There is very little potential instability, in that the red parcel curve lies mostly to the left of the environmental temperature sounding.
Figure 9.
A Stüve diagram for Denver, Colorado, valid at 1200 UTC (6:00 a.m. MDT) July 15, 2016. The vertical axis is pressure in millibars; the horizontal axis is temperature in °C. The two bold black curves trace the vertical variation of temperature (right) and dew point (left) as measured by a sounding balloon. Wind speed and direction, derived from balloon tracking data, are plotted to the right of the diagram. Orientation of the wind staff gives direction; small barbs represent five knots, long barbs 10 knots, and flags 50 knots. The red curves show the variation in temperature and dew point that an air parcel would experience when lifted from near the surface to above 200 mb. Cloud base is where the temperature and dew point lines intersect (low on the chart). The level of free convection (LFC) is where the curve for the parcel trajectory first passes to the right of the environmental temperature curve. On this sounding, the LFC is near 500 mb, but the parcel becomes only slightly warmer than its surroundings and doesn't stay warmer for long.
The evening sounding (Figure 10) has moistened considerably: the temperature and dewpoint are much closer together, and the precipitable water is 1.24 inches, more than double the morning value. Moistening through the depth of the troposphere has two causes: the influx of low-level moisture from the northeast and the pumping of that moisture vertically. The parcel trajectory now lies to the right of the plot of environmental temperature, from 720 to 235 millibars, despite significant cooling of the lower troposphere during the afternoon.
Figure 10.
As in Figure 9 except for 0000 UTC, July 16 (6:00 p.m. MDT, July 15), 2016. The arrival of the gust front from Nebraska has moistened the lower troposphere considerably since the morning sounding (Figure 9), and thunderstorm updrafts have pumped the low-level moisture throughout most of the troposphere. (The spread between temperature and dew point is only a few degrees at most levels.) Because of copious low-level moisture, the parcel trajectory curve now lies to the right of the environmental temperature curve over an extended range of altitudes, making it possible to release the potential instability and build thunderstorms.
The effect of the influx of low-level moisture on potential instability can hardly be overemphasized. Increasing the low-level dew point has the effect of shifting the entire parcel trajectory to the right with respect to the environmental temperature sounding, thereby increasing the positive buoyancy of the parcel above the LFC. That, in turn, increases the potential instability.
Triggering Mechanism
Air must be forced upward to its LFC. If there is no potential instability, the LFC does not exist, and no amount of forced lifting will generate a thunderstorm. Forced lifting is caused when air encounters a topographical barrier or by low-level convergence.
Convergence is the coming together of different airstreams. One example is air of higher density plowing into air of lower density and forcing the latter upward. The gust front generated by rain-cooled air in Nebraska does just that, as shown on the 0000 GMT sounding (Figure 10). Following the gust front passage, the lower tropospheric winds have shifted into the northeast, whereas they were from the west on the morning sounding (Figure 9). But here is the hard-to-answer question: will the convergence along the gust front be enough to raise air near the surface to its LFC? If not, will collision of the gust front with the Front Range foothills do the job? In retrospect, it appears that upslope flow along the foothills and south of Denver was the deciding factor, though the storm over central Denver appears to have been triggered by a gust front from the storm that earlier developed near Boulder.
Gust fronts generated by thunderstorms pose a major forecast challenge. If the forecast of occurrence, location, or timing of the initial thunderstorms is inaccurate, the gust front can't be properly anticipated. Once formed, whether the gust front will be able to raise parcels of low-level air to their LFC is an even more vexing question. In the case just reviewed, it is likely that the additional lift provided by flow against the foothills was just enough to bring parcels to their LFC, because very few storms fired over the relatively level plains.
Here are the relevant questions a forecaster must answer in order to successfully predict thunderstorms spawned by gust fronts: (1) Where will the initial thunderstorms develop? (2) Will they produce enough evaporatively cooled air to generate a gust front? (3) Where will the gust front go? (4) Will it interact with rising terrain, an existing convergence zone, or another gust front? (5) Will rising parcels reach their LFC? Very detailed observations of temperature and moisture in the lowest few thousand feet are required to answer the last question, and, in most cases, such observations are not yet available.
Readers for whom the discussion of the Stüve stability diagram is too much might want to consult the discussion of "Vertical Air Movements," on pages 81–85 of The AMS Weather Book. The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather, published jointly in 2009 by the American Meteorological Society and the University of Chicago Press. Author Jack Williams manages to convey the same ideas but without the complicated diagrams.
Weatherwise Contributing Editor THOMAS W. SCHLATTER is a retired meteorologist and volunteer at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Submit queries to the author at firstname.lastname@example.com, or by mail in care of Weatherwise, Taylor & Francis, 530 Walnut St., Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Paul T. Schlatter, at the National Weather Service's Denver, Colorado, office, procured the radar images. John C. Osborn, at NOAA's Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, Colorado, annotated the figures.


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|INDIAN BANK Vs. MAHARASHTRA STATE CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING FEDERATION LTD.,
|Before the Supreme Court of India
|Justice S.C. Agrawal and Justice G.T. Nanavati
|Author of the judgement
|Justice G.T. Nanavati
|Decided On
|5 May, 1998
|Advocates for the appellant
|Sameer Parekh, Ms. Bina Madhavan, P.H. Parekh
|Advocates for the respondent
|D.M. Nargolkar
|Author of the brief
|Aditi Mozika
|Res Sub Judice, Civil Procedure
Brief Facts and procedural history:
The Respondent Federation opened in the Appellant Bank an Irrevocable Letter of Credit for a sum of Rs. 3,78,90,000/- in favor of M/s. Shankar Rice Mills on 5 June 1989. This was done on leave to the Federation to defend the suit conditionally upon the Federation depositing Rs. 4 crores in the Court. The summons for judgment was disposed of and the Notice of Motion was dismissed by the single bench. Aggrieved by the Order of the Learned Single Judge, the Federation preferred Appeals No. 953 and 954 of 1994 before the Division Bench of the High Court.
According to the division bench the word 'trial' in section 10 has not been used in a narrow sense and would mean the entire proceedings after the defendant enters his appearance, held that section 10 of the Code applies to a summary suit also. It also held that the summary suit filed by the Bank being a subsequently instituted suit was required to be stayed.
Issue before the Honorable Supreme Court:
Whether the bar to proceed with the trial of subsequently instituted suit contained in section 10 of the Code is applicable to a summary suit filed under Order 37 of the Code?
- The object of the prohibition contained in Section 10 is to prevent the courts of concurrent jurisdiction from simultaneously trying two parallel suits and also to avoid inconsistent findings on the matters in issue.
- The course of action which the court has to follow according to section 10 is not to proceed with the 'trial' of the suit. This does not mean that it cannot deal with the subsequent suit or for any other purpose.
- The provision contained in section 10 is a general provision applicable to all categories of cases, while those contained in Order 37 apply to certain classes of suits. One provides a bar against proceedings with the trial of a suit, while the other provides for granting of quick relief. Both these provisions have to be interpreted harmoniously so that the objects of both are not frustrated.
- In suits where summary procedure has been adopted, the defendant has to file an appearance within 10 days of the service of summons and apply for leave to defend the suit. If the defendant does not enter his appearance or fails to obtain leave, the allegations in the plaint are deemed to be admitted and straightaway a decree can be passed in favour of the plaintiff. It is only if and after the defendant obtains leave that the stage of determination of the matters in issue will arise. The trial would really begin only after leave is granted to the defendant. This is the scheme of summary procedure as provided by Order 37 of the Code.
- The word 'trial' in section 10, in the context of a summary suit, cannot be interpreted to mean the entire proceedings starting with institution of the suit by lodging a plaint. In a summary suit the 'trial' really begins after the Court or the Judge grants leave to the defendant to contest the suit. Therefore, the Court or the Judge dealing with the summary suit can proceed up to the stage of hearing the summons for judgment and passing the judgment in favor of the plaintiff if (a) the defendant has not applied for leave to defend or if such application has been made and refused or if (b) the defendant who is permitted to defend fails to comply with the conditions on which leave to defend is granted.